ShaoLan: The Chinese zodiac, explained
シャオラン・シュエ: 十二支入門
ShaoLan want to help people understand China's culture and language, and to bridge the gap between East and West. Full bio
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by your Chinese friend,
聞かれたことはありませんか?
思わないことです
どれかだって
失礼にならずに年を聞く方法なんです
of asking your age.
値踏みされることにもなります
you are also being evaluated.
about your fortune or misfortune,
判断されます
partner's animal signs,
想像されることになります
about your private life.
かもしれませんが
in the Chinese zodiac.
is influenced by it,
それに影響されているんですから
入れておいた方が賢明です
of Greco-Roman zodiac,
ギリシア・ローマ式の十二宮です
12年の周期で
「猪」で終わります
with constellations.
in 1975, you are a Rabbit.
「兎」です
どれか分かりますか?
a very complicated theoretical framework
とても複雑な理論体系を作り出しましたが
and the 12 zodiac animals.
陰陽・五行・十二支です
people's major decisions,
影響を及ぼしてきました
and attitude towards each other.
お互いに対する態度
are quite amazing.
get on better than the others.
相性があると信じています
選ぼうとします
to give birth to babies,
by the right combination of animals
協同作業が
信じているからです
when entering into romantic relations.
十二支を参考にします
with Tigers, Goats and Rabbits.
「虎」か「羊」か「兎」です
are natural enemies.
思っています
to be careful with a Snake.
気を付けなければなりません
話を付けましょうか
are luckier than the others,
幸運だと思われています
for power, strength and wealth.
権力 強さ 富の象徴です
to have a Dragon baby.
みんなの夢です
must have been very proud.
鼻が高いに違いありません
Hong Kong and Taiwan
上昇しました
子供が生まれたということです
one million more babies.
preference to baby boys,
120対100でした
was 120 to 100.
大人になったとき
competition in love and job markets.
より厳しい競争に晒されることになります
government's press release,
2015年1月にピークがありました
of Cesarean sections.
for the Year of the Horse.
というわけではなく
having unlucky Goat babies.
するためです
がっかりしないで
「羊」の生まれです
ないと思いますよ
その激しやすい性格のため
saw a sharp decline of birthrate
大きく下がる地域が
zodiac in reverse,
いいのかもしれません
will face much less competition.
「虎」や「羊」の子供達は
上位300人のリストを調べてみましたが
top 300 richest people in the world,
the Goat and Tiger,
to have less competition.
なのかもしれません
their investment decisions
投資の決断を
というのがあります
of the zodiac sign
in making major decisions
使われるようになったのは
until the past few decades.
surviving poverty, drought,
貧困や干ばつや飢饉や暴動や
手一杯でした
have the time, wealth and technology
ずっと望んでいた理想の生活をするための
手にしたのです
they've always wanted.
made by 1.3 billion people
集団的に下す決断は
and demand on everything,
不動産や消費財に到るまで
変動を引き起こします
to property and consumer goods.
中国が大きな役割を果たす今
in the global economy and geopolitics,
and other Chinese traditions
基づいてなされる決断が
around the world.
影響を及ぼしています
creative and mischievous.
創造的で いたずら好きなんですよ
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
ShaoLan Hsueh - Technologist, entrepreneurShaoLan want to help people understand China's culture and language, and to bridge the gap between East and West.
Why you should listen
ShaoLan is an entrepreneur, angel investor, geek, writer, traveller and dreamer. She is the founder and creator of Chineasy, which she launched after her TED Talk in Long Beach, California in 2013.
In just over three years, she has built Chineasy into one of the most popular methods of learning Chinese across the Internet with several hundred thousand fellow learners. Her first book, Chineasy, The New Way to Read Chinese, was launched in March 2014 and has been translated into 18 languages. Her next book, Chineasy Everyday, was launched in March 2016.
ShaoLan is a tech entrepreneur with extensive business experience. At the age of 22, while studying for her MBA, she wrote four best-selling books on software in Taiwan, and her books were bundled by Microsoft. She co-founded pAsia, one of the major players on Internet in Asia in 1990’s. After a second masters degree at the University of Cambridge, she began Caravel Capital in 2005 to advise young tech companies.
Chineasy represents a return for ShaoLan to her artistic upbringing and in many ways a design project. This project is the culmination of her life’s journey through the East and West. Her aim is to help people to understand China, Chinese culture, its language and to bridge the gap between East and West. Her next step is to help Chinese children to enjoy and appreciate the beauty of their own language.
ShaoLan Hsueh | Speaker | TED.com